Hydroponic Farms Taking Water Out of a System When Planted with Mealwood

Yes, this doesn't happen when you harvest the plants, there is no water bottle output. It also doesn't happen if you select the plant to not be harvested.

Did you do something more than harvesting mealwood on a hydroponic farm while having water underneath it? Because it seems it doesn't happen for me at all. Water stays in pipes just fine.

Do you have some other specifics in your setup perhaps? Running water in a loop through the tiles doesn't do anything either

I have my plants with auto-harvest disabled and the water that is running through the hydroponic farm tiles is an Aquatuner + Steam Turbine cooling loop. Not sure what could be out of the ordinary but the 5kg bottles of water did indeed appear above my hydroponic farms for some reason.

I haven't exhaustively tested this at all so the only thing I am certain about is that 5kg bottles of water appeared above every one of my hydroponic farm tiles that were planted with mealwood. I also have other hydroponic farms planted with arbor trees in the same save. What I'm not quite sure about is the actual cause of the 5kg bottles of water or when they actually appeared. However, these 5kg bottles of water precisely above hydroponic farm tiles planted with mealwood have appeared more than once.

Also I have reason to believe that this water was actually removed from my cooling loop because the packets of water inside the loop was no longer all the same size.

Edited August 23, 2023 by Gnosis

I would like to know more about this issue so that I may exploit it for nefarious purposes.

I noticed when I was duping seeds, that I had bottles and dirt/ bleach stone/ ect. flying out of the farm tiles. They weren't emptied by dupes, they just got ejected.

I'm guessing that when the detection kicks in (be it maturity/ harvesting/ uprooting/ whatever), then the tile ejects what is "wrong". Since mealwood doesn't require water, it is marked as wrong and out it goes. I don't think it's a bug, more like a logical conclusion to a standardized system.

 

But I'm just guessing. Hope it helps

Edited September 8, 2023 by AliBob